Has your furball ever turned “your home” into a mini demolition zone? Did Tabby stage a midnight keyboard takeover or send your favorite mug plummeting? Drop your most epic “holy whiskers” catastrophe below
Has your furball ever turned “your home” into a mini demolition zone? Did Tabby stage a midnight keyboard takeover or send your favorite mug plummeting? Drop your most epic “holy whiskers” catastrophe below
One of our cats had a serious medical issue, we think a blood disease caused by a tick bite (we had just moved to a new house, and we think it was already in the house - she was an indoor only cat). One night as she was recovering, she started attacking her own tail. This is something that can happen to cats who go through a trauma like this. We tried to distract her from it, but it didn’t work.
The next morning, we discover blood all over the house. She got her tail bleeding and then proceeded to walk around the house. Our bedroom, my office, the hallway, the stairwell, and every room on the first floor.
I worked on cleanup while my wife took her to the animal hospital.
They tried to bandage it, but it never worked, it would start bleeding again when the bandage was removed. We had to have her tail docked.
Poor kitty. She passed away in 2020 (she never really got well after that initial incident, unfortunately). I still miss her!
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She actually survived several years after that incident, but she was never quite the healthy cat she was before we moved. Unfortunately she ended up in the animal hospital again at the height of the pandemic, and it was so bad that they were letting us into the building to see her. She was there over a week, and she just wasn’t getting better - and even if she had recovered, it wasn’t a cure; it was just recovery. In other words, there was no guarantee she wouldn’t be back there again in a few months with exactly the same problems.
So sorry for your loss. I (the writer this time speaking; instead of cats impersonista) had a dog looong time ago. He had diabetes he had hard times near the end. So, I know what you feel. It is pain for onself as one can see its little fur in pain/sick. As I wrote early (as that time cat impersonista). She enjoyed and was lucky to have you. You did what you could, and, sincerely, more than what people would usually do.